Microsoft is pushing the boundaries of productivity with the latest updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Whether it is Copilot Pages, which promotes AI-based collaboration, or the major enhancements coming in Teams, Excel, and other Microsoft services, there is a lot to learn about the new features and improvements in Copilot. Surely, they will help elevate your business operations.
Here is what’s new…
✔ Say hello to Copilot Pages—a dynamic canvas about AI-driven collaboration, raising the bar for digital workspaces.
✔ Get more out of Microsoft 365 apps with new Copilot features—think smarter Teams meetings, powerful Excel data insights, better PowerPoint storytelling, and a more organized Outlook.
✔ Introducing Copilot Agents—built to automate complex business tasks and help teams boost productivity effortlessly.
Empowering Businesses with Continuous Innovation and Enhanced Performance
WME is excited to announce the release of groundbreaking updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365. Building on the insights from almost 1,000 customers, Microsoft delivered over 700 product improvements and incorporated over 150 new features this year.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 now leverages GPT-4o and enhanced orchestration to boost its performance – twice as fast. And, the response satisfaction has tripled.
The remarkable feedback loop of AI makes it possible to deliver innovative solutions, step by step improving performance, helping you to boost productivity, and providing your business with new AI capabilities and models.
Unveiling Copilot Pages: A New Era of AI Collaboration
Microsoft unveils Copilot Pages – a new way of turning AI-generated content into persistent, collaborative business assets.
Integrated with Business Chat (BizChat), this single central hub brings together web, work, and business sources into an interactive workspace.
Copilot Pages has been rolled out to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, and general availability was delivered in September 2024.
Now, teams can work together to build further on their work in real time with Copilot’s help. This new way of collaborating with AI changes the way organizations use their information and improves productivity through human-to-AI partnerships.
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Expanding Copilot Pages: Bringing AI-Powered Collaboration to Millions
Microsoft is extending Copilot Pages to over 400 million users free of cost through their Microsoft Entra accounts to further capitalize on this momentum.
Combining the power of web grounding, enterprise data protection, and the interactive features of Pages is simple. Users can now pin Copilot in the Microsoft 365 app, keeping it seamlessly integrated into their daily workflow. This feature will soon be available in Teams and Outlook as well, allowing users and businesses to benefit from advanced AI.
Supercharging Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot is rapidly becoming an essential tool for boosting personal productivity and saving valuable time. Millions of users around the globe rely on Microsoft 365 apps for their daily work.
With the latest updates in Wave 2, Microsoft is leveraging customer feedback to enhance Copilot’s capabilities even further. This has ensured that Microsoft continues to transform how individuals and teams get work done.
Here are the details…
Unlocking Advanced Data Analysis with Copilot in Excel
Microsoft makes a great breakthrough in data analysis using Excel by making Copilot generally available in Microsoft Excel. Now, users can leverage the amazing capabilities of Copilot beyond the traditional table formats. It is now possible to get better support with complex formulas like XLOOKUP, SUMIF, etc.
You can also use Copilot features to enhance advanced Excel features like conditional formatting and dynamic visualizations i.e. charts and PivotTables. Copilot can even assist with text data. So, it becomes an invaluable tool for diverse analytical tasks.
Adding to this, Copilot in Excel with Python is now available in public preview. This is nothing but merging the power of one of the most popular programming languages for data analysis with the ease of Copilot.
This integration enables you to perform sophisticated tasks i.e forecasting, risk analysis, machine learning, complex data visualization—all through natural language commands. You don’t even have to write a single line of code. It’s like having a professional data analyst at your fingertips. Excel is going to be even more powerful and accessible for advanced business insights.
Create Perfect Presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint
Creating impactful presentations just got easier with Copilot in PowerPoint. It’s now generally available.
The new Narrative Builder feature allows you to collaborate with Copilot to craft a polished draft in minutes. This way, you can transform your initial ideas into a structured outline. You can then edit and add files to this outline and make your presentation comprehensively on point.
That said, the upcoming Brand Manager feature will ensure that your slides are consistent with your company’s branding. There will be company-approved templates and images retrievable from your SharePoint Organization Asset Library. This makes it simple to create top-notch on-brand presentations with minimal effort.
More Meeting Clarity with Copilot in Teams
Copilot in Teams offers a full meeting recap.
It analyzes all the discussions and chat messages and delivers transcripts as well. After a meeting, you will be able to ask Copilot whether you missed any questions or comments, and it will review the transcript and the chat to let you know, in case you missed something.
This feature is literally going to make Teams meetings more inclusive, offering a comprehensive view of the events.
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Managing Email Overload with Copilot in Outlook
Copilot in Outlook is here to help tackle the challenge of email overload with the new Prioritize My Inbox feature. This feature intelligently sorts your emails based on your relevance to your role and past interactions. It ensures you see the most important messages first.
Plus, with quick summaries and key insights, you’ll be able to consume the most important information without having to read through hundreds of replies and forwards. Very soon, “Prioritize my inbox” will be even more customizable.
Just tell Copilot the topics, the keywords, and the members that matter most to you, and your inbox will be even more personalized. Public preview in late 2024.
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Streamlining Document Creation with Copilot in Word
With the change rolled out, Copilot in Word becomes more than just a writing assistant. By now, the tool already enables you to reference and incorporate data from various sources i.e. Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, emails, and even meeting conten – all without leaving your document.
With this feature, you can draft a piece faster and more thoroughly, taking less time away from work. Moreover, the new start experience on Canvas and suggested prompts ease the process of beginning a write-up while collaborating with Copilot inline on any particular section proving it will run more smoothly. With the change generally available, any writer can use Word’s Copilot as an all-encompassing tool.
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Transforming File Management with Copilot in OneDrive
Now navigating and managing your files is easier with the Copilot in OneDrive. This feature will help you find the information you are looking for without opening dozens of your documents. It will analyze and compare up to five files and provide you with a summary and the most relevant differences. This intelligent feature will convert your OneDrive to an insightful tool that helps you quickly access important content. This capability is generally available now. Now you can easily manage your personal work content in OneDrive.
Empowering Business Efficiency with Copilot Agents and Agent Builder
Businesses can now take advantage of Copilot Agents– powerful AI-driven tools that automate and streamline processes, bringing more productivity and cost elimination.
Copilot Agents can range from simple task automation to fully autonomous operations that take virtually no human interaction to function.
For example, the new Visual Creator Agent offers you the ability to create AI-powered images, designs, and soon even videos, directly in your workflow.
Building these agents has now become more accessible than ever, as Microsoft introduces the Agent Builder tool incorporated into BizChat or SharePoint interface. With this tool, you can easily create agents that utilize the company’s knowledge stored in SharePoint and translate it into useful insights.
You can easily create an agent that connects to SharePoint in minutes and immediately assists your team by providing them with relevant answers or just informing them of the latest data.
And for even more complex needs, Copilot Studio enables you to add more capabilities to your agents and deploy them to take on more work. This could be anything from connecting to an external data source to executing a specific command. With Copilot agents becoming generally available in BizChat and the first preview for Agent Builder in SharePoint, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is certainly bringing an unprecedented level of efficiency to your business operation.
Real-World Impact: How Businesses Are Thriving with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot, within only 18 months, has turned into one of the most essential tools for organizations throughout the world. The growth of customer adoption in the last quarter alone increased to 60 percent, and the daily organizational use of this amazing application has doubled.
Grupo Bimbo and Mayo Clinic are examples of global brands that have integrated Copilot into their organizations. Bimbo employees are using Copilot to gain quick access to the necessary data related to the company’s policies and procedures. As a result, they spend less time searching for the information and their risk of non-compliance becomes minimal.
Mayo Clinic has also implemented Copilot to reduce the administrative burden on its staff and practitioners who can now devote more time to their patients.
Looking Ahead: The Future of Microsoft Copilot Innovation
We have only begun to see wave 2 of Copilot innovation. Over the next two months, more updates will be announced, continuing to highlight how Copilot is changing the game of productivity and business value for companies around the globe. With WME as your trusted Microsoft partner and services provider, you can be sure that you are kept in the loop on all the stuff going on. We are here to equip you to take full advantage of this innovation so that you can meet your business needs.
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Boost Your Productivity with WME’s Microsoft Copilot Solutions
WME enables you to get the most out of the Microsoft 365 Copilot. Our custom Copilot services ensure your team is making the most of this handy productivity tool, utilizing all the features well. Whether you are using Copoit for easier communication or want to take advantage of the data analysis powers or anything else, WME’s Copilot offering has got you covered.
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